Hot liquids, hand washing, clean clothes -- no cafés, staying happy!

Breakfast at the Skylight Diner, NYC

Acrylic on canvas

30 x 30 inches

Barbara Muir © 2014
(available!)

How could one painting sum up so much about where we are at now?  

This was meant to be about love, the love of breakfast with someone

you love.  In this case the place is a wonderful diner in New York

City.  But in Toronto all of our restaurants and cafés are closed 

because of the virus, and we cannot cross the border to the U.S.

and New York City.  And also in Toronto if I go for a walk with

my husband now, I have to walk 6 feet away from him.  

But what is possible is to drink coffee, and if not coffee as many

hot liquids as possible -- new advice arising from studies

on the virus.  Wash our hands every 20 minutes, wipe all surfaces,

especially metal, wear clean clothes, clean your hair when you

come inside (the virus lives on hair, and fabric).  Also we should

gargle with hot lemon (continuing the hot theme) and relatives

in British Columbia recommend garlic. Friends advise wiping down

all of your groceries when you bring them home.  And we will

have to show I.D. to go out and shop.

We should eat fruits, vegetables, and yes soup.  Hot.  Get the theme.

Another survey put online by a friend suggests that to maintain mental

health we need to communicate with people we enjoy every day.

I enjoy you.  Great movies?  TV  shows?  Things are ramping up

in Canada.  If you are both virus free, have a wonderful breakfast

with the one you love.  And if not.  Have a wonderful breakfast

on your own.  

Have a dealing with the facts day.